Iron Horse
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Description 

Scenario of the Wild Wild West (WWW). Our hero resolves to storm a train today and to casually give the approaching companions his piece of mind. He bravely fights his way forward from carriage to carriage, with drops of sweat oozing from the forehard. When he has finally, afters 6 carriages, reached the end of the level, things will become serious: cowboys in a bad mood, who probably will think of our hero as rather unappealing, seem to get spit out of a cloning machine and thwart the hero. After this stage (to our hero nothing is too difficult) he will be rewarded a considerable tip onto his account and he goes on into the next level. By the way, the "hero" can only carry one weapon. At the beginning of the game he chooses between a pistol (revolver?), whip or the mere fists. 

 Design 

It is ok for the date of issue, 1987. The game is pervaded by acceptable scrolling and a graphic which is rather good, altough not too diversified. As soon as you've learned a few tricks, the game is played rather casually, otherwise it is rather difficult. The controls are good, although a few commands need to be given through the keyboard (fire wall, ducking). 

Controls at the start of the game: 
 With  1  /  2   choose the joystick (port2) or keyboard 
 Then choose the keys for fire wall and ducking 
 With  1  /  2   choose the number of players (1/2) 
 Choose main weapon by pressing the fire button  (whip, pistol, fist) 

Controls in the game: 
 = steer hero 
 = fire weapon 
 Defined key 1 for fire wall in viewing direction 
 Defined key 2 for ducking (knife, etc. blocking) 
Restore  to abort a game 

Tips: 
 When you duck, you escape the hostile shots and lassos. But don't wait for too long: the evil boys are really trained and very quickly on the spot. You can also avoid the knives which fly around in the third level by ducking. At the end of the third level stay ducked and shoot to the right. 
 As weapon I recommend the pistol. The whip is too slow, the fists will give you double points, but then the game is three times as hard. 
 To be able to send a fire wall you first need to collect a fire bottle. 
 You can also climb ladders and search your way over the roofs of the waggons.


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